Course Description

Discover how fun it is to mix sketching and watercolor together while traveling, visiting your favorite cafe, or working from your photos at home. This style of sketching is loose and freeing. I have a very fun and easy way to help you learn to sketch and paint what you see. It breaks down the steps and creates beautiful expressive sketches. Starting with easy drawing exercises to warm up, you’ll gradually add in detail with pen sketches.

Perfect for the advanced beginner, this class picks up where my Joyful Beginning Watercolor class leaves off. No drawing experience is needed for this class, some watercolor painting experience is helpful.

The eight chapters cover:

1. Materials for Watercolor Sketching: What I use, how and why.

2. Sketching Tips: How to shade with pens and pencils.

3. Perspective: 6 Key ways to show perspective in your work.

4. Choosing What to Sketch: How to look for points of interest, and crop your subject.

5. Sketching with a Permanent Pen- Step by Step Paint Along.

6. Sketching with a Water Soluble Pen- 2 Step by Step Paint Alongs.

7. Sketching with a Water Soluble Pencil and Colored Pencils- 2 Step by Step Paint Alongs.

8. Painting with Buff Titanium (you may substitute other colors). Step by Step Paint Along

9. Sketchbook Design Ideas. Ways to add in text, and arrange elements on your pages.

PLUS Downloadable pdfs with instruction, sketch samplers, links to resources and more.

  • Full access to class for one year.
  • You will have full access to all content immediately- allowing you to skip around and to work at your own pace.
  • 6 hours of film, divided into 53 short videos with optional HD viewing
  • Videos are filmed close up with no music, so you can listen to your own music or silence.
  • Pdfs are downloadable and for you to reference any time in the future.
  • High speed internet connection recommended, basic computer skills required.
  • Refunds not available.
  • Cost $95

Artist & Art Teacher

Liesel Lund

Liesel Lund is a full time artist who loves to teach and share her passion for art and the creative process. Her colorful past includes a long art education, Peace Corps in Thailand, designing graphics for Woodland Park Zoo, children’s books for McGraw-Hill, and textiles for Tommy Bahama. These days you can find her in her studio, spoiling her kitties and drinking large cups of tea while she works with watercolor, acrylics, fibers, jewelry, and art journals. She teaches adult art classes on art journaling, mixed media, and watercolor painting at local art stores and at art retreats around the U.S. She is a featured artist in Creative Wildfire by LK Ludwig, Cloth, Paper, Scissors March 2015 , and Drawing Lab for Mixed Media Artists by Carla Sonheim.

Course curriculum

  • 1

    1 Sketching Materials

    • Sketchbooks & Paper

    • Cold Press vs Hot Press Paper

    • Paint Colors

    • Paints in Garden Villa Set

    • Paints in Italian Villa Set

    • Paints in Italian Seaside Villa Set

    • Paints: Textures and Skin Tones

    • Travel Palettes

    • Travel Brushes

    • Pens

    • Pencils

    • Samplers

    • PDF Samplers to download

    • Download: Daniel Smith Watercolor Chart
  • 2

    2 Sketching Tips

    • Seeing Shapes

    • PDF- Sketching Tips

    • Shadows

    • Shading with Pen

    • Contour Lines with Pen

    • Sketching Rocks

    • Shading with Pencil
  • 3

    3 Perspective

    • Perspective

    • Details to Smudges

    • Go Blue

    • Overlapping

    • 1 Point Perspective

    • 2 Point Perspective

    • Distance
  • 4

    4 Choosing What to Sketch

    • Photo Resources

    • Choosing What to Sketch
  • 5

    5 Sketching with Permanent Pen

    • Intro

    • Paint Along Download: Palms & Patio Photo

    • JWS 3-4 Sketching Lanai

    • JWS 3-5 Lanai 2nd Warm Up

    • JWS 3-6 Lanai Transfer to WP

    • JWS 3-7 Lanai Pen Drawing

    • JWS 3-8 Lanai Pen #2 FAST

    • JWS 3-8 Lanai Pen #2 regular

    • JWS 4-1 Painting Lanai

    • JWS 4-2 Painting Lanai

    • JWS 4-3 Painting Lanai

    • JWS 4-4 Painting Lanai

    • JWS 4-5 Painting Lanai

    • JWS 4-6 Painting Lanai

    • JWS 4-8 Painting Lanai Tape and Pens
  • 6

    6 Expressive Sketching

    • Intro

    • Mini-Lesson: Using the Pen

    • Download Photos for Paint Along: Barn & Tulip Fields

    • Step 1: Pencil

    • Step 2: Water Soluble Pen

    • Step 3: Add Water to Create Values

    • Step 4: Add Paint, part 1

    • Add Paint, part 2

    • Add Paint, part 3

    • Add Paint, part 4

    • Step 5: Final Pen

    • Finished Sketch

    • Expressive Painting, Demo 2

    • Desert, part 1

    • Desert, part 2

    • Desert, part 3
  • 7

    7 Sketching with Pencils

    • Intro

    • Download Photo for Paint Along: Hawaiian Flowers

    • Water Soluble Pencils, Flowers, part 1

    • Water Soluble Pencils, Flowers, part 2

    • Water Soluble Pencils, Flowers, part 3

    • Notes

    • Colored Pencils, part 1

    • Colored Pencils, part 2

    • Colored Pencils, part 3

    • Pear Painting
  • 8

    8 In a Class by Itself

    • Intro

    • Buff Titanium Intro

    • Download for Paint Along: Window Box & Wooden Chair

    • Buff Titanium, part 1

    • Buff Titanium, part 2

    • Buff Titanium, part 3

    • Buff Titanium, part 4

    • Finished Sketches
  • 9

    9 Sketchbook Design Ideas

    • Design Ideas

    • Sketchbook Design

    • Design & Layouts

    • More Design Ideas for You

    • Final Note

  • $165.00

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